It was sometime later that she sat across from him again, picking at the cold food and eating a few nibbles here and there. She had finally calmed, but she was quiet and her eyes distant after all the fuss.

She looked at him finally and said, "Me ma warned me against this, but I think she'll change her mind... Especially when she see's how joyful ye make Jacob just when he sees ye. He loves ye, I can tell."